[NYPost] President Trump’s heralded decision to make DEI DOA couldn’t come a moment too soon for Nicole Parker.
The so-called diversity, equity and inclusion initiative was a boondoggle that wrought incalculable damage across every sphere of employment in the country.
No one knows that better than Parker, a former FBI special agent of 12 years who described how a civil war brewed inside the once-venerable agency, with “lines drawn” between two clashing factions she termed “FBI 1 versus FBI 2.”
One side represents “integrity, meritocracy and protecting the American people” while the other force pushes “personal agendas and identity politics, DEI and politically motivated cases” in lieu of serious crime investigations and “the upholding of law and order replaced by performative posturing.”
“People think that the bureau just went after conservative Americans outside [the agency],” Parker said, adding that with cues like the COVID-19 vaccine that often fell along political lines, FBI 2 “would go after you internally. They were picking on employees too.”
By the time she left Wall Street to join the FBI in 2010 at age 32, Parker writes in her new book, “The Two FBIs: The Bravery and Betrayal I Saw In My Time At the Bureau,” that she saw segments of the bureau “becoming increasingly obsessed with diversity,” with breathless announcements about new clubs, meetings and “other diversity events.”
A mere three years later, Parker described the newly formed “Office of Diversity and Inclusion” and “Diversity Advisory Committee” and by 2015, “diversity” was added as a core value of the bureau — which she claimed had nothing to do with “protecting the US from terrorist attacks” and combating threats that should have been priorities at the heart of the agency.
The declaration, “We know that a more diverse workforce allows us to connect with and maintain the trust of the American people” even appeared on the agency’s public website.
While standards “deteriorated” during the era of President Barack Obama and bureau Director James Comey, Parker claimed, under President Joe Biden and Director Christopher Wray “it really amped it up” and “morale took a serious hit.”
“Under the Biden administration, they were hiring idiots,” Parker bluntly claimed to The Post. “Hiring standards dropped and it was noticeable, lowering the standards to meet quotas.”
It was all part of an insidious apparatus that degraded the agency to which she devoted more than a decade of her life.
In addition to being the agent in charge of the Parkland school shooting for the bureau, doing the death notifications, Parker worked high-profile investigations, specializing in human trafficking, violent crimes, active shooting situations and manhunts — until, after much soul-searching, she ultimately walked away in October 2022.
Days before the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre that saw 17 students and staff killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parker described a diversity event at the bureau — and how Wray’s priority seemed to be on that, rather than taking tips.
“I had to tell shattered parents that their child was dead when it could have been stopped,” she told The Post.
“My blood was boiling. What if instead of focusing so much time and energy on diversity, such as the Diversity Agent Recruitment (DAR) event that Director Wray had attended nine days before, only twenty-seven miles south of the Parkland killing spree location, he had prioritized hiring the best and brightest and making sure that they were properly trained to know how to document a tip that might have saved seventeen lives?
“In my mind, the improper prioritization of diversity might have cost those lives,” she writes.
For Parker — a Texas native and former hedge fund exec who was traumatized by witnessing 9/11 from the World Financial Center (Brookfield Place) — it was a tale of two FBIs, essentially one good, one sinister.
She described “FBI 1” as “honorable patriots working hard protecting Americans, upholding the Constitution in a fair and unbiased manner, working legit investigations and fighting real crime.”
The insidious FBI 2, in sharp contrast, is the “antithesis” of their brethren. They are described as FBI members who “abuse their law enforcement power to push their political and social agendas,” and those who are “self-promoters in leadership positions” either at headquarters in DC or executive management nationwide.
FBI 2’s “shameful actions have destroyed the bureau’s once stellar reputation,” she says.
The DEI scourge is responsible for more FBI failures than people realize, she said.
“There are many people who are highly incompetent, who aren’t where they should be based on merit, and that’s dangerous,” Parker, who was based in the Miami Field Office, contended. “And when your focus is not on the proper priorities, the safety of Americans, people get hurt.”
Her best friend, Laura Schwartzenberger, a 43-year-old married mom of two, was a former special agent SWAT operator who was killed when she was shot in the head alongside a fellow agent while executing a search warrant on a child predator in Florida on February 2, 2021.
“There was no SWAT support for her. They were not deliberately sending SWAT resources for child predators like they were for January 6th misdemeanors,” alleged Parker, referring to prosecutions over the 2021 storming of the US Capitol and adding that the problems were bubbling for years. “Between DEI, social justice warriors, political weaponization and lazy employees, the FBI’s issues did not start overnight.”
With the January 6 “obsession” and the FBI’s 2022 Mar-a-Lago raid “scam” to seize classified documents, Parker said she’s far from the only “FBI 1” agent who’s walked away.
“As soon as I left, people started reaching out to me, saying, ‘Enough is enough,’” she claimed.
“People think that the bureau just went after conservative Americans outside [the agency],” Parker said, adding that with cues like the COVID-19 vaccine that often fell along political lines, FBI 2 “would go after you internally. They were picking on employees too.”
“They would go after people that stood up to them internally. It was like career suicide for many people that stood up to the Biden administration,” she claimed.
Watching the recent Brown University attack in which two students were killed by a masked gunman, Parker claimed, “DEI causes death — and that’s what you saw at Brown,” adding that the tragedy could have been prevented “if they focused on proper cameras and security and not being woke.” Parker quoted a campus security guard as saying, “I’m focused on this ‘Free Palestine’ thing.”
The shooter in that case, Claudio Neves Valente, was found dead by authorities a few days later.
She added that Brown “was more concerned about woke movements and making ‘safe spaces’ on their campus so everyone could feel loved and included. And freeing Palestine rather than addressing their on-campus threat risk and safety vulnerabilities such as no cameras on an entire section of the school.”
Still, Parker, who’s now a Fox News Media contributor, is confident the bureau can earn back the public’s trust and turn itself around — with time.
Under Trump, she predicted that “FBI 2” “will be eradicated as its political and social weaponization is dismantled and those responsible for its downfall will be held accountable. The FBI will regain Americans’ and FBI employees’ trust and return to excellence. There will no longer be two FBIs,” she writes, adding that current Director Kash Patel is focused on “keeping America safe.”
“There will be one honorable FBI exemplifying fidelity, bravery, and integrity. That is what our current, retired, and fallen FBI heroes’ legacies deserve. Most of all, that is what Americans deserve,” she added.
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The FBI reminds me of a FIAT that needs a new transmission. If you go through the trouble of fixing it, you’ll still be left with a FIAT that you like less and less.
I no longer own a FIAT. I drive a vehicle that does not have the check engine light on all the time.
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FIAT - Fehler in allen Teilen (Faults in all parts)
Videos so we can see for ourselves, as we are entitled by law to do in this free nation.
[ZeroHedge] The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime.
“My office has received outreach from members of the Somali community after reports of home-based daycare providers being harassed and accused of fraud with little to no fact-checking,” State AG Nick Brown stated.
“We are in touch with the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families regarding the claims being pushed online and the harassment reported by daycare providers. Showing up on someone’s porch, threatening, or harassing them isn’t an investigation. Neither is filming minors who may be in the home. This is unsafe and potentially dangerous behavior.”
Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil rights, issued a warning of her own in reaction to the Washington state AG’s post.
“ANY state official who chills or threatens to chill a journalist’s 1A rights will have some ‘splainin to do,” she wrote on X, Wednesday morning.
“[The DOJ Civil Rights Division] takes potential violations of 18 USC § 242 seriously!” Dhillon added.
This statute, known as the Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law, makes it a crime for any person acting under the pretense of law to willfully deprive another individual of rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
The clash of the AGs came after Youtuber Nick Shirley exposed about a dozen Somali-owned, state-funded childcare facilities in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that appeared to be completely deserted.
Shirley produced a 42-minute video, which has been viewed over 131 million times on X since it was posted on December 26, alleging that Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) “knew about the fraud but never reported it.”
Inspired by Shirley’s bombshell report, citizen journalists in multiple states with large Somali populations have launched their own investigations in recent days.
In the Kent, Washington area Tuesday, YouTuber Chris Sims, a self-described “gonzo journalist,” visited seven suspicious Somali childcare sites and reported that they were “very unhappy” to see him.
Sims posted a video of him approaching a private home listed as a childcare facility that appeared to be not as advertised.
“There was no sign of kids or being a Daycare facility,” Sims wrote.
“I was told by a few they weren’t Daycares despite receiving tax payer dollars. One yelled ‘Call the police’ behind the door.”
On Monday, independent journalists Jonathan Choe and Cam Higby visited an alleged Somali daycare facility in Seattle that receives hundreds of thousands in taxpayers funds and the person who answered the door said there was no daycare there in the past or present.
Higby said “Dhagash Childcare” has received over $210,000 just this year alone.
Another listed childcare facility, a house in a residential neighborhood in Kent, Washington, has received over $863,000 since 2023, according to Higby.
“Residents say there IS NO DAYCARE HERE,” the journalist said.
Another reporter reporting on potential fraud in the Rainier Vista neighborhood of Seattle on December 29th, faced hostile reactions from the Somali residents, who called the police on him.
In his statement, the Washington State AG encouraged members of the Somali community “experiencing threats or harassment” to call the police or his office’s Hate Crimes & Bias Incident Hotline or report it to the state’s hate crime website.
Addressing the independent journalists, Brown added: “If you think fraud is happening, there are appropriate measures to report and investigate. Go to DCYF’s website to learn more. And where fraud is substantiated and verified by law enforcement and regulatory agencies, people should be held accountable.”
The Post Millennial’s Andy Ngo responded to Brown’s threat on X, saying: “It is the duty of journalists to visit taxpayer-funded nonprofits and businesses to investigate where you have failed. The journalists have documented their visits on camera and there is no harassing or threatening behavior. You are trying to threaten journalists by telling people to call police with false allegations of a hate crime.”
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In the mean time MN's AG has filed a case to prevent the Feds from shutting down the Daycare pipeline. Does the expression "unindicted co-conspirator" ring any bells?
[ZeroHedge] Almost a year after January’s devastating California wildfires, real estate investors have been buying up nearly 40 percent of the land sold in the areas impacted by the fires.
A Dec. 30 report from Redfin stated that many of these now-empty lots once retained some of the nation’s most expensive homes, before they were reduced to rubble when the fire ripped through over 40,000 acres and destroyed more than 11,000 single-family homes in the Los Angeles suburbs.
A Zillow analysis—also released on Dec. 30—indicates the total residential housing value of the 19,605 homes in the affected regions was $46 billion prior to the fires.
More than 11,000 of those homes were destroyed.
The median home value in Los Angeles suburbs was listed at $1.95 million as of December 2024, prior to the fires.
Zillow’s report shows that for-sale housing supply near the fire zones escalated soon after the fires ended. In addition, new listings within five miles of the fire regions continued to grow from December 2024 to January 2025.
“While home values nearby have dipped a bit, in line with broader Los Angeles trends, the most evident impact was on supply,” Orphe Divounguy, a Zillow senior economist, said in the report.
“The sharp increase in listings just outside the burn zones likely reflects a mix of homeowners accelerating planned sales or owners of second homes deciding to list in response to the sudden shift in local demand.”
According to Redfin, investors were responsible for buying 48 of the 119 lots for sale in the Pacific Palisades area during the third quarter. In nearby Altadena, investors purchased 27 of the 61 lots available, and in Malibu, 19 of the 43 lots for sale were bought by investors.
Redfin’s analysis indicates that many investors made lowball offers for lots in Altadena, where some of the destroyed homes had been built in the 1940s and 1950s. These lots have been selling in the $500,000 to $600,000 range. The report noted that while some owners rejected these offers, others were forced to sell as they lacked the money to rebuild.
By comparison, a typical empty lot sold for $1.6 million in Pacific Palisades, and for $1.3 million in Malibu.
“It’s not uncommon for investors to buy and develop land after natural disasters,” the report stated.
However, while investors have been making inroads in getting vacant land off the market, Redfin agents say there is so much vacant land for sale that much of it remains unsold.
Meanwhile, those homes left standing in the fire zones are attracting offers if they’re reasonably priced, with owners usually handling the ash and smoke damage remediation.
Redfin reported 31 sales of single-family homes in Pacific Palisades during the three months ending Nov. 30, up from a record low of just six in the three months that followed the fires. Altadena agents recorded 58 sales of single-family homes, up from a record low of 26 in the three-month, post-fire period.
Zillow found that median home values within five miles of the fire perimeters fell 1.7 percent from December 2024 through November 2025. Similarly, median home values also dropped by 1.9 percent in the Los Angeles metro area, more than 20 miles from the fires.
Immediately following the fires, the number of new listings within five miles of the fire zones skyrocketed by 194 percent in January 2025, compared with December 2024.
“The most important thing someone looking to buy in this area can do is figure out if they can afford insurance,” the Redfin report stated. “Mortgage lenders in California require homebuyers to have fire coverage, and premiums have gone up by 35% to 50% since the fires.”
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It will be interesting to see if the investigators get their permit paperwork expedited. If they do, I would expect that to get Harmeet’s attention.
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When they moved the Japanese from the Left Coast during 1942, the home owners lost the means to pay property taxes. 'Someone' picked up the properties.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
